Leading up to the time of the
Partition of India,
[17] some 1300 Jews remained in Karachi, most of them Bene Israel Jews observing
Sephardic Jewish rites.
[18] The first real exodus of Jewish refugees from British India to Bombay and other cities in India came just prior to the creation of
Israel in 1948 when Jew hatred spread to Pakistan.
[19] When Israel came into being in 1948, many Jews fled as refugees to Israel via India or to several Commonwealth countries again via India, and after the Arab-Israel war a majority of them had left Karachi.
[20] By 1953, fewer than 500 Jews were reported to be in all of Pakistan.
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